Post by owene on Jun 2, 2010 14:20:42 GMT -5
Just been reading a few old Cap's (225 and 226).
225 is a Gerber issue looking at Cap's past via a memory visualiser and then ends with him seemingly back the way he was before the super serum had an effect. I'm not sure the ending really worked for me but I enjoyed the issue quite a lot as Gerber was making surprisingly good use of some of the characters from Kirby's 70s run on the book (which most Cap writers tended to just ignore Arnim Zola apart) and to me actually had quite a nice bombastic Kirby feel to a lot of it.
Next issue Gerber's gone. The guy investigating Cap's past is gone, the villains plotting against Cap are gone and Cap is on the Helicarrier under threat from the Red Skull. He is still scrawny but he magically regrows his muscles when fighting a training robot. They actually grow back as he watches.
I guess his getting his muscles back was just as bizzare as losing them so I can't really complain but I dont think I've ever read a book that so casually threw out the previous writers work in the very next issue.
I know Gerber left Marvel in a hurry and very acrimoniously over the Howard the Duck stuff and I guess this was just minor fall out but does anyone have any idea of what he was planning to do or know anything about the issues at all. Wish I'd asked Gerber back when he was on the AML.
Failing that can anyone think of any other books that had such a rapid change of regime and just junked everything that was going on in the very next issue?
225 is a Gerber issue looking at Cap's past via a memory visualiser and then ends with him seemingly back the way he was before the super serum had an effect. I'm not sure the ending really worked for me but I enjoyed the issue quite a lot as Gerber was making surprisingly good use of some of the characters from Kirby's 70s run on the book (which most Cap writers tended to just ignore Arnim Zola apart) and to me actually had quite a nice bombastic Kirby feel to a lot of it.
Next issue Gerber's gone. The guy investigating Cap's past is gone, the villains plotting against Cap are gone and Cap is on the Helicarrier under threat from the Red Skull. He is still scrawny but he magically regrows his muscles when fighting a training robot. They actually grow back as he watches.
I guess his getting his muscles back was just as bizzare as losing them so I can't really complain but I dont think I've ever read a book that so casually threw out the previous writers work in the very next issue.
I know Gerber left Marvel in a hurry and very acrimoniously over the Howard the Duck stuff and I guess this was just minor fall out but does anyone have any idea of what he was planning to do or know anything about the issues at all. Wish I'd asked Gerber back when he was on the AML.
Failing that can anyone think of any other books that had such a rapid change of regime and just junked everything that was going on in the very next issue?